Augustin Filon
Pierre Marie Augustin Filon (1841–1916) was a French professor of rhetoric and the author of a number of works of fiction, as well many articles, reviews and books on contemporary English politics, art and literature.In October 1867, Duruy, then the French minister of education, appointed him tutor to the Prince Imperial.[1] Upon the fall of the Second French Empire, the Prince Imperial was exiled to Chislehurst, Kent, accompanied by Filon, who settled in England with his family.He also wrote the prefaces for certain works by his younger sister, historian and writer Mary Summer.[3] His only child was the distinguished applied mathematician Louis Napoleon George Filon, who worked with Karl Pearson.